Chapter 312 Fateful Vigil
"Disciples from the five major immortal sects have already taken the Relic Fruit and their realms have improved rapidly, with no abnormalities or evil changes."
"However, the methods used by various immortal sects are different. Some refine it into liquid medicine and take it, some refine it into pills, and some transform it into the blood and qi outside the body and then absorb it."
"Also, the ruins of the Tianchi Lake have been opened to the west of the Yongzhou Shanhai Pavilion Dojo."
"One of the five main branches of the Daodao Sect is heading to Broken Soul Mountain."
"There has been a great aura of boundlessness in the Heavenly Sword Peak recently. I think someone in a higher realm has tried the fruit."
It was a drizzling spring day, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and it was gloomy everywhere, with no light coming through.
Ji You was sitting in a teahouse called Wangyue in the county town in the southeast of Qingzhou, holding the message from Xiao Jianzhu in his hand and examining it carefully.
Ever since Dan Zong left, he has been coming here all the way. He then kept an eye on the area near the Great Wilderness Forest for a long time and confirmed that there were indeed people entering and leaving the ruins.
However, the Immortal Sect acted very cautiously and sealed off the area around the Great Wilderness Forest. Even the surging torrent of the Fog River was blocked by secret methods, which resulted in him being unable to enter the ruins to find out what was going on for a long time.
However, there was often a breath of breakthrough coming from the forest, which allowed Ji You to confirm that someone had already consumed the fruit.
After all, for the immortal cultivators in Qingyun World, when faced with "immortal objects" that can improve their realm, it is really difficult for them to resist not using them.
And this letter from Yan Shuyi completely confirmed his thoughts.
Even without the assistance of an alchemist, they still began to try, and even researched various ways of taking the relic fruit.
Being absorbed into the blood and qi outside the body sounds really high-end.
Ji You finished reading the letter, then asked the waiter to bring paper and pen, and wrote back to Yan Shuyi amid the faint sound of thunder.
"Two battles have broken out in the Great Wilderness Forest. The two main branches of the Wending Sect have faced each other with swords. It seems that just like your Spirit Sword Mountain, there is no unity within. Now, the so-called immortal fate has magnified their desires, and conflicts are gradually arising. This is a cause for celebration."
"Also, the number of people coming and going in the forest has continued to decrease in recent days, especially the masters above the Yingtian Realm, who have almost all evacuated. I think this place must have been hollowed out. Perhaps this is why Shanhai Pavilion opened the ruins in front of its gate."
"No evil species have been found in the forest, which is a good thing. I will go to Yongzhou to take a look later."
"Qiu Ru doesn't like to practice and is also greedy. Please take good care of her for me and don't spoil her too much."
After writing the letter, Ji You put it into his sleeve and then drank all the water in the teapot.
From the current perspective, the fruits in the ruins really seem to be a great fortune bestowed by Heaven on the human race, just like the favor of Heaven that cultivators often talk about.
But there are Taoist fruits in the ruins, and there is immortal fate in the place where people are eaten, which is a problem in itself.
However, for Ji You, if this immortal fate really would not lead to disaster, would not leave corpses all over the world, and would not bring disaster to Fengzhou, he really did not want to get involved in such trivial matters.
Ji You thought for a long time, then stood up and walked towards the teahouse, deciding to go to Tianchi again.
As he stood up, the sixteen bamboo chopsticks that were arranged in a formation on the table suddenly fell with a "click", as if all their supports were pulled away and scattered all over the wooden table.
The spiritual energy that had previously gathered between the chopsticks lost its direction and began to spin in an instant, sweeping the uneaten tea and snacks on the table all over the place.
After a few breaths, the spiritual energy gradually dissipated and everything returned to calm.
The waiter in the teahouse had never seen such a strange thing. He stared at it for a long time before trying to get closer to pick it up.
Three days later, the temperature gradually rose and wild flowers bloomed all over the hills.
Ji You flew to Yongzhou and went to Tianchi, which was not far from Shanhai Pavilion, under the cover of night.
This place is located in the warm wind zone, with a circular high mountain in the middle. The accumulated rain throughout the year has caused the concave mountain top to form a huge lake, which looks magnificent from a distance, hence the name.
The ruins of Tianchi Lake are located in a deserted dense forest on its southeast side, and are even larger than the Great Wilderness Forest.
There is only one immortal sect in Yongzhou, the Shanhai Pavilion. Although it is not written in the Qingyun Immortal Rules, it is tacitly accepted by people all over the world that the Shanhai Pavilion is the real master of Yongzhou.
So unlike the Great Wild Forest where all the immortal sects gathered, there were only disciples of the Shanhai Pavilion around the Tianchi ruins, no other immortal sects, and the defense was even tighter than that of the Great Wild Forest.
However, even though there is only one company, it does not mean that there is no competition.
As soon as Ji You restrained his breath and disappeared into the woods, he saw the flashing of swords and the shadow of sabers, and spiritual energy flowing in all directions.
"Second Young Master, we are from the same sect. Why did you suddenly attack me?"
"Father has given me full authority to handle this matter. I don't know why Huo Xingzhong arranged for you to come here."
In the dark woods, a handsome man in a gorgeous robe spoke slowly with cold eyes.
The person who asked the question raised his head and said, "The eldest son is the next headmaster of Shanhai Pavilion. He has the right to handle the affairs of the sect. The second son is so aggressive. Don't you think it's a bit presumptuous?"
"Don't use this to pressure me. Brother is just trying to master the holy weapon, not the master yet."
"you……"
The man in fancy clothes looked up at him and said, "After the relic fruit is taken out, I will naturally send it all to the pavilion. Please go back and tell my eldest brother to take good care of the weapon and not waste his mind on mundane things."
Ji You watched this scene and found it quite interesting.
The inheritance model of Qingyun Tianxia is destined to the disorderly reproduction and dispersion of bloodlines. For example, if the leader of a sect gives birth to three sons, then these three sons will become the three main bloodlines for the next hundred years.
For such a large immortal sect, three main veins are not many, but there are still their elders and elders within the sect who will participate in the fight for the right of inheritance and place their bets secretly.
If it were normal times, everyone would sit in the mountains and compete with each other in terms of realm and talent. Whoever was better would win, and there wouldn't be much friction.
But now that the Relic of Immortal has come into the world, it seems to have given everyone a cheating option, which will naturally arouse countless desires.
When Ji You read some literary works in the past, he often saw stories about a certain wealthy family having only one son for three or five generations. He always wondered if they had done too many evil things and therefore could not have sons.
But when he put himself in this kind of environment, he understood that single inheritance was entirely for the purpose of gathering power among successors.
Otherwise, just the division of the family would surely break up a top family within three generations.
Even if the Immortal Sect has a holy weapon to suppress it and the separation fails, the internal fighting within the family will quickly consume the family's luck.
During the time Ji You was in the Great Wilderness Forest, he did not find out the specific details of the ruins, but he did learn a lot of gossip and remembered some people.
For example, the third young master of the Wendao Sect, and the second young master of the Shanhai Pavilion in front of him.
The third son of the Wendao Sect is named Shang Xijie. His talent is no less than that of his elder brother Shang Xiyao, and he has always been eager for the right of inheritance.
The fight in the Great Wilderness Forest happened because Shang Xijie suddenly intervened. At that time, many people from the Wendao Sect were shouting for the Third Young Master.
Moreover, according to Ji You's observation, there are quite a few supporters behind these three young masters, and they all seem to want to make a comeback by relying on the immortal fate in these ruins.
After all, although the Wendao Sect had just announced that Shang Xiyao would be in charge, it had not been successful after all. For these three young masters, they were still not completely without a chance if they could use the help of the immortal fate.
As for the second son of Shanhai Pavilion, Huo Xingyun, his situation was similar to that of Shang Xijie of Wendao Sect.
Huo Xingzhong, the direct disciple of Shanhai Pavilion, has a different father from his mother, but Huo Xingyun has always been unwilling to accept the fact since Huo Xingzhong became the direct disciple.
If it were in the past, no matter how unwilling he was, he would have been nothing but helpless rage, but the immortal fate of the ruins gave him a glimmer of hope.
This is like a fight for the throne of a dynasty, everyone will try their best to increase their advantage, even if the risks are unknown.
Even if they really cannot control the holy vessel in the end, as long as they increase the stakes before the change of power, they can avoid the liquidation in the inheritance.
The stalemate lasted for a long time in the dark forest, and finally the people arranged by Huo Xingzhong temporarily retreated.
After all, they belong to the same clan, so it is impossible for them to fight to the death in public.
Ji You watched the group of people leave and turned his gaze back to Huo Xingyun.
Not long after entering Yingtian Realm, his breath gradually stabilized. I don’t know if it was because he ate the Zhu Fruit.
If he hadn't eaten, he would indeed be considered a genius. No wonder there was a hint of desire for power in his eyes.
When he thought of this, he couldn't help but think of Huo Hong, the illegitimate son of Shanhai Pavilion who had broken both legs in the Dongping Mountains.
There has been no news of this person since he left Dongping Mountains. I think he has become a victim of the power struggle...
He is different. His family does not have much family property to pass on, and in the future it will probably be up to whose child to inherit.
While he was thinking, Ji You suddenly came back to his senses.
In the dark forest, a surging divine thought was heading towards this place.
Seeing this, Ji You instantly broke off a few branches in front of him, quickly retracted the golden light in his eyes, and jumped off the cliff.
However, that divine thought was still chasing after him, roaring directly along the mountain ridge.
Buzz!
The mountains and forests trembled, and all the trees rustled.
An old figure appeared from the night, with snow-white hair and beard, and fluttering clothes, like a hawk flapping its wings. He suddenly flapped his arms, and a pair of wrinkled hands suddenly slapped across the sky.
The vast palm force, accompanied by a dazzling mysterious light, poured down like a river from the sky, smashing heavily towards the foot of the mountain.
In an instant, dust rose into the sky like an angry dragon, earth and rocks splashed, and the sharp explosion awakened the entire darkness.
But after the dust settled, the old man couldn't help but frown.
Because the place he took the photo of only a few broken branches and a spirit stone that was broken by the energy of Qi, and there was no trace of anyone, which made him feel strange.
He had clearly felt a faint fluctuation of spiritual energy just now. How could he not find someone when he was chasing after him with his boundless body movement that ignored distance?
The old man looked at the branches, then glanced at the surrounding trees, and his brows furrowed even more tightly.
This broken branch is obviously not of the same species as the surrounding trees.
At this moment, Huo Xingyun, dressed in gorgeous clothes, came from the air, and landed next to the elder with the corners of his clothes fluttering.
"Uncle, what happened?"
"I just felt a breath of air, as if someone had been spying outside the forest, but when I arrived, I found no one there."
Huo Xingyun frowned upon hearing this, and looked around with a cold gaze: "It must be someone under Huo Xingzhong's command again."
The old man looked at Huo Xingyun and said, "The eldest son is taking over the holy weapon, so he doesn't have the energy to arrange things so carefully. The person who came might be the fifth son's man."
"Huo Xingzhou? What can he do?"
"Second Young Master, don't underestimate Fifth Young Master. None of you brothers are simple."
The old man's name is Huo Shun. He is a main figure of the previous generation of Shanhai Pavilion. He bet on Huo Xingyun among the Five Sons of Shanhai and is also his protector.
When the headmaster announced that Huo Xingzhong would take over the sacred weapon, they thought that the dust had settled. However, the sudden revelation of immortality in the ruins gave them hope again, so they were the first to send people to the Great Wilderness Forest.
Huo Xingyun thought for a while and suddenly asked, "Uncle, why did you come to Tianchi Mountain so late at night?"
"The second batch of raw liquid has been refined."
"How much did you keep?"
"Fifty percent, tell the sect that it's thirty percent, and give the remaining fifty percent to the sect."
Huo Xingyun nodded after hearing this, and then rushed back to the sect under the leadership of Huo Shun.
Not long after, countless people in the Elder Peak on the right side of Shanhai Pavilion got a jade bottle.
The jade bottle was flowing with fiery light and emitting countless alluring fairy lights. Just by opening the stopper and taking a sniff, one was able to feel a vast and majestic fairy power.
In the quiet of the night, Ji You, who had escaped from the pursuit of Wujiangjing's men, had arrived at a mountain in the southeast. He sat cross-legged, setting himself on fire while gazing at the Shanhai Peak in the distance, which was shrouded in clouds and mist and looked like a giant beast that could devour the sky.
He heard some of the conversation between Huo Shun and Huo Xingyun, and knew that Shanhai Pavilion processed the relic fruits by refining them into liquid, so he was observing the reaction.
In the silent night sky, everything is quiet except for the chirping of insects and birds, and it seems that everything is peaceful.
As he read, he suddenly remembered the story of the night watchman and his brows couldn't help but frown.
To be honest, he is on guard now, as if it is fate.
Perhaps it was because he had read too many literary works about "my destiny is in my own hands" before traveling through time, he actually did not believe in fatalism, but now he felt that he was becoming more and more like a night watchman.
But that's just his personality.
After seeing the branch broken by his sister at the riverside that day, he wanted to see everything with his own eyes for fear of missing anything.
It was late into the night when Ji You gradually began to feel sleepy.
He has been on the road these days, traveling from Danshan to Qingzhou, and from Qingzhou to Yongzhou. Even if a cultivator does not need to sleep often, he will still feel tired.
But just when he was about to close his eyes, a mysterious light suddenly appeared between the peaks in the sea of clouds, instantly dispelling his sleepiness.
Not long after, another ray of mysterious light appeared, followed by the third, fourth, fifth... and finally fifteen rays of mysterious light shot towards the sky together, causing wind and clouds to surge all around and grass and leaves to fly everywhere.
Sure enough, no one can resist the temptation of immortal fate, especially when they have the immortal fate in their hands.
Ji You stood up from the weeds, looked into the distance, then restrained his breath and jumped down the mountain.
The aura surging throughout the mountain was indeed that of a breakthrough, there was nothing strange about it.
It can be confirmed that he was once a Taoist practitioner.
He floated down to the foot of the mountain, sat on the water tower of the small town at the foot of the mountain, and waited until dawn.
The fifteen mysterious lights lasted for a whole night and then disappeared one after another. There was no sound in the mountain, and no evil creatures appeared in the town at the foot of the mountain. Everything was different from what he had worried about.
Really, is this the destiny bestowed by heaven?
Ji You sat quietly on the water tower, muttering to himself.
As far as Shanhai Pavilion is concerned, two batches of relics have been salvaged. One batch came from the Great Wilderness Forest, and each major immortal sect has several of them in their hands.
After this batch of fruits came out, they were originally going to be refined by alchemists, but according to Yan Shuyi's message, after the plan failed, the Immortal Sect selected disciples from the side branches within the sect to test the fruits.
Including last night, many people waited until the second half of the night to drink the fruit juice, ultimately out of caution.
After all, what happened at Qiling happened before, and no one would easily believe that it was a good result.
But the facts now seem to prove that it is indeed a true immortal fate.
When Ji You was thinking, he suddenly discovered that countless sounds of flying in the air from the Shanhai Pavilion were roaring, and figures were soaring above the void, shuttling through the light blooming in the sky, and falling towards the Tianchi.
"The fruit is the same, but those who take it will experience a huge improvement. It seems like it is truly a blessing from heaven."
"If I had known this, I shouldn't have been so cautious. I would have gone to Danzong unnecessarily and lost an elder from the Boundless Realm."
"Continue to explore deeper, be cautious, and don't let the news leak out for the time being, even to the sect."
The temperature in Qingyuntianxia continues to rise, and the seedlings in the fields have begun to emerge.
Ji You had been keeping an eye on Shanhai Pavilion for a long time and received another letter from Xiao Jianzhu.
Just as he had seen that morning, after having the fruit tested on humans and extracted and refined it in various ways, all the major immortal sects had confirmed that the fruit was of the same quality.
The Dao Sect, the Chen Clan, and the Xuanyuan Immortal Palace have all secretly opened the ruins of their respective areas of jurisdiction.
Such news made Ji You frown.
To be honest, he could accept it even if there was news that someone turned into an evil species after eating the fruit, but the problem was that there was no such thing.
So how did the Bu family acquire the ability to transform into evil species?
Could it be that what they eat is not the fruit found in the ruins?
Ji You held Yan Shuyi's message and read it for a long time, then took out another letter from Tianshuyuan from his sleeve and gently unfolded it.
The Tiandaohui is held every five years, and in between there is another grand event called the Youxianhui.
And what was placed in this piece of letter was the invitation to the Immortal Traveling Society.
Ji You originally had no intention of going, because the Immortal Tour would not allow him to enter the holy land of the sages again, only the Heavenly Dao Festival once.
According to legend, the immortals lead the way, and on the day when humans offer sacrifices to the heavens, there will be feedback from heaven, and those who practice immortality will receive enlightenment and inheritance under the starry sky.
But he had no way to break through, so naturally he could not avoid it.
But after seeing the message from Yan Shuyi, he decided to join in the fun.
Of course he would not participate in the competition, because with his current combat power, if he participated in the competition at the Tongxuan realm, he really would not be able to stop.
Moreover, after knowing that the inheritance of the Night Watch might have been cut off by the Immortal Sect, he was indeed afraid that someone would see something from him.
The reason why he wanted to go was that he wanted to see with his own eyes those who had taken the fruit of relics.
There must be traces of disasters, and it is impossible to hide them so perfectly, unless it is really a chance.
Then he had nothing to say, and from then on he gave up the investigation, practiced hard, outlasted the old man, and made Fengzhou rich.
While thinking, Ji You suddenly turned his head and looked towards the mountain stream not far away.
Perhaps in order to guard against Huo Xingzhong's secret inspection, Huo Xingyun strengthened the blockade around the Tianchi ruins a lot, and even Yingtian and Wujiang showed up.
He had restrained his aura in recent days and kept it calm, but now he was still being followed.
As soon as he thought of this, Ji You soared into the air, his fiery aura swaying towards the sky, and his whole body flew into the sky like a rising sun.
At this moment, the forest below suddenly exploded, and Huo instantly rose from the ground, holding a huge amount of lightning in his hands and soaring into the sky, and his palms slammed down like thunder.
But the next moment, he was hit hard by the palm, the lightning was shattered, and the huge energy directly caused his blood to surge, making a hint of surprise appear in his eyes.
The disciples who followed him couldn't help but look up into the void, and saw that a powerful mortal body had created a shimmering horizontal line in the sky, stretching for ten miles.
"Huo Xingzhong?!"
Hearing the noise, Huo Xingyun came flying over and looked at the figure with a frown on his face.
In his opinion, only Huo Xingzhong or other direct descendants of the immortal sect could barely do that, as he was so young and could fight against the Wujiang Realm.
As soon as the words fell, Huo Shun immediately shook his head grimly: "It's not him."
"If not him, who else?"
"Heavenly Academy Ji You."
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